Green is All Right!That's what I've been listening to lately. R.E.M.
Green over and over and over again. I managed to pick up 3 used R.E.M. cds for cheap cheap cheap last weekend. The pick of the litter is clearly
Green. (I also bought
Out of Time and
Monster.) "Pop Song 89," "You Are the Everything," and "Hairshirt" are incredible. The first gives me a warm fuzzy politico vibe that is similar to Talking Heads' "Don't Worry About the Government." The second is just very delicately beautiful and may be my favorite on the entire album. The last reminds me of St. Augustine in a strange way. Anyway, I was grabbed up by Green in a way similar to how I feel about
Automatic for the People,
particularly "Try Not to Breathe."
R.E.M. is one of those bands that is imprinted with times and places for me. Sometimes it's an album by album or song by song thing. "Try Not to Breathe" is Ryan, Doug, Cat, and Rick (mostly separately) "Nightswimming" is also Rick. Most of the album, to be fair, is Rick (read as, as Flynn once poetically put it, "ass hat guitar player"). "Be Mine" and "Binky the Doormat" are Flynn. "Electrolyte" is Sam. "Strange Currencies" is Lucas, and so on and so forth. R.E.M. on a general level is Marty -- in that there isn't a particular song that I can pin it to, but upon digging into
Green, I thought Marty would appreciate this. Flynn is both
New Adventures in Hi-Fi and
Up.
So far,
Green is just mine. I haven't shared it or listened with other people. That's always a sort of delicate thing with me and music, I have to admit. I've gotten a bit selfish with my music consumption after the debacle of sharing the Talking Heads with someone. Handle with care, I suppose.
So lately, it's R.E.M., the Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! that are in heavy rotation.
BIRD POOP!There's something wrong if a story about bird crap on my face garners no responses.
